I suppose that is true, but part of HIPPA is showing who accessed records, I guess you could use room access for that. In the systems I've setup, we've had to use a document management system for any image access, so the file access is recorded in SQL.
Hm, secure room isn't a bad idea, but then, whats the point of using an IPOD (or other external storage for that matter) if you can't take it outside the room.
HIPPA is an utter pain in the ass from a compliance perspective, mainly because provisions in it make it very easy to litigate on. Are the images stored in 128 encrypted format on the IPOD? Does the software do journaling to document the identity of those who view it?
Shame really, our legal system is going to make adoption of new tools (in medicine in particular) difficult.
Still a neat concept. She should win an award or something just for outside the box thinking.
All the states listed are pretty socialist, compared to the US anyway. I wonder if France and Canada and so-forth have subsidised internet from the government. I'm not certain I want my tax dollars (and tax increases) going towards discounting broadband for everyone. Other countries that have lower costs of service are probably delivering their product with monetary assistance from the governments.
One thing the article probably failed to mention is all. You could have the same article and swap "broadband" with "health care".
With the stereotypical tech-ignorant law enforcement of today, it's refreshing to see some crime fighters not only understand that this is a serious enough crime to warrant the manpower to investigate, but then to actually pull off catching them. Hats off to the Dutch law enforcement agencies involved. Good work.
This seems very similar to the Rambus deal where they sat with Intel and Micron and others at a JDEC summit and came up with a new standard for memory to replace sdram. The end product was RIMM (which sucked balls by the way). Rambus went and patented a lot of the JDEC designs and then sued all the people that came up with the standard for patent infringement. With RIMMs sucking, they weren't on the market for too long, so Rambus died a fairly quick and ignomius death. Hopefully we can hope for similiar for NTP.
I'd be interested to see how Microsoft's involvement with the new Palm pda's is affected by this. I can see Blackberry and Microsoft and Palm all forming a coalition to sue NTP into oblivion, since presumably the palm treo and even the smart phones made by motorola and others violate some aspects of NTPs patents, which sound overly broad.
It's obvious the US patent system is broken. Maybe someone should form a mail-in campaign to our congressmen and senators to make this an issue. That's the way we're supposed to invoke change in this country right? Bitch at our politicians until they get tired of listen to us.
Well, I get why you wouldn't currently see a lot of value, but take these 'worms' and get a year of open source guys playing with them and I think we'll see this morph a bit and add a lot of flexibility.
I don't mind an international body doing this, but I really mind the UN doing it. Couldn't we found an international geek body to do this instead? Like IEEE or ICANN or CERT or something?
I guess all's I'm saying is this is a different methodology for doing the same thing in a centralized fashion. You'd still need a central DB cluster to collect data, I'm really looking at this more from an AI agent perspective, for some sort of distributed (hard to attack) agent that collects data on WAN connectivity.
Can you do all this with central monitoring servers? Yes.
Maybe look at it this way, I get to work by driving, car pooling, or telecommuting. Which is better in every situation?
Do you not see any advantage in having a different set of open source tools for network monitoring?
Why would I want to infect my switches and routers with this? I already have SNMP. Spanning tree kicks in almost instantaniously.
I guess it depends on your environment.
The only way a worm would do that would be if it had infected the problem machine (in which case, why not just run a firewall on it) or if it had infected your switchs/routers.
Why not just write the app to run on those in the first place? Why make it a worm?
Because if it's a worm I don't need to dedicate hardware to network monitoring, the network pcs that run at 5-10% cpu and have a couple hundred meg free of physical memory can do it
What "expensive" tools?
How about HP Openview or Network Node Manager. I'm not talking about monitoring a single lan segment here, I'm talking about an enterprise environment with tens of thousands of nodes.
All you'd need is SNMP and the knowledge to setup your firewall correctly and a machine to receive the syslog messages from your firewall and parse them.
yes, thats one way to do it, but dealing with SNMP mibs is a pain in the ass when you're dealing with multiple vendors, every try running MRTG against Dell PowerConnect switches? You can't, they don't adhere to RFC with SNMP, you have to buy their tool to do switch management/monitoring.
Further, what if your environment is a product of acquisitions in many sites, that means different products for different firewalls, unless you can just purchase pix525es at will I guess.
It's far more efficient to have the choke points do the monitoring than to have worms running around on your network.
It is currently, but I think the idea of gathering agents that a roaming ability on the network would be great for looking for new nodes on the network, local users trying to run exploits, build their own little networks, etc. I'm not saying that this article promises the latest greatest or anything, but I can see how mobile agents, maybe tied into a backend SQL database to do logging and handle a limited AI reasoning table, would be very handy.
Another thing it would be good for is when you do an acquisition of another mid-sized or enterprise company and their IT staff didn't document things well and is hostile from the take over. These would be great asset and config discovery agents.
Worms are only useful for spreading crap to machines you don't control. Once you have control there are so many more efficient ways to push code to them or monitor them.
It would be cool if you could have these worms each perform certain functions (one to better manage spanning-tree for instance, so when a link fails spanning tree rebuilds faster for example) with some sort of AI, or really even a really good base line vs current activity comparison machine, to intelligently manage WANs and LANs.
Be nice to have worms that watch for machines all the sudden opening ports that they never have before, all the sudden opening up multicast or what not, or even finding that bad machine sending out bad frames on the network.
I can see a lot of flexibility with this, particularly if they are written in some sort of open source scripting language. I guess what I'm getting at is that they could be sort of like an open source distributed IDS/IDP system.
Granted you can do all these things now with a mix of expensive monitoring tools and a lot of config work with tools like ethereal and mrtg and big brother/big sister, etc. But this might be an easier way to do the same thing.
Oh, I can see how you might interpret it that way. What I was actually inferring to was that it was likely that anyone readying slashdot has probably pirated software/mp3s, more addressing that audience than anything else.
Absolutely I would. You are assuming that this web version of office would never be upgraded, but there isn't any reason that it wouldn't be.
In the age of free municipal wifi and internet cafes, internet access is easy to come by. Also, I don't need or want to use a laptop when I'm flying in business class, I'm 6'3" and 250 pounds, I barely fit into my seat as it, I certainly don't have room to look at a laptop.
I'd probably pay once a year or something for online file storage and use of the office suite, a monthly charge is kind of tedious.
Would I pay $100 a year? yeah.
Would I pay $200 a year? Probably not, but maybe $120 or $150 for my family/household.
Laptops get stolen. They break. They are another piece of luggage to have to worry about. My company wouldn't allow me to bring my personal laptop onto the corporate LAN either. They are also pretty expensive for a non-upgradable appliance in my opinion.
Personally, I haven't paid for a copy of office in something like, uh. Well, I've never paid for a copy of office actually. But would I be willing to pay some sort of subscription fee type deal for not only an office type app suite, but one that while I was at work I could get to my home documents, or on vacation, etc?
You bet your software pirating ass I would! Provided it was SSL enabled anyway, one thing that chaps my hide is that all these free email clients don't have any security on them. That sort of keeps me from using goggle mail for anything but fluff email.
But a full blown web office suite that was an online repository for my data. That's smart. I really hope that someone can get this to production, and have an easy was to do an import of old office stuff that actualy works without losing formatting and whatnot.
It's a violation of the USA's own weapons policy to mass produce, or use in the field of war under any circumstances, biological agents. As a retired NBC weapons/decon grunt, I can tell you that you'd have rank and file desertions if a unit was ordered to deploy a bioweapon. Indoctrination at the private level and above preaches against the use of biological agents over and over.
What the DoD is doing here is making some anthrax vaccine, because we're out. We used a lot of it with our second Iraq deployment, and the fear is very real that someone will use an anthrax weapon in a terrorist attack. The army wants to get some vaccine, and start making their own so they aren't reliant on outside contractors to produce it. It's always been a weak point in our policy I think to rely upon civilan companies to produce vaccines for biological agents (and checmical for that matter).
A crop duster full of anthrax would cause some serious mayhem in the US, or anywhere else for that matter, think about it.
Sad thing is, I can see them pulling it off. But like others have said, who cares, I guess. I have Sirius in my car, so I haven't listed to a local station in almost 2 years now. Radio pretty much sucks at this point.
I don't mean to sound naive, but seriously, what happened to fair use? I thought part of the broadcasting agreement allowed for people who receive the signal to record it.
Same as email received is the property of the owner, isn't signal received property of the receiver?
WoW certainly isn't the 1st game to be a huge time sink or be popular. Yes, it has the most subscribers to date, but the next big MMORPG will have more, it's just a snowballing growth rate is all.
Did UO reduce sales of single player games or keep people from playing other online games? Didn't for me, I played UO, AC, EQ, DAoC, CoH, EQ2 and now WoW. I still buy the occasional strategy game that is worth a shit (few and far between in my opinion).
I can't see any truth to the idea that WoW is stifiling the gaming industry. WOTC didn't stifle the gaming market the way everyone said it would with Magic, in fact, the open gaming license helped a lot of small time publishers put out good product that people felt comfortable purchasing
Maybe that's a bad analogy, but I can't think a big player in the game hurts everyone else (I actually think Microsoft has done a lot of good to the PC industry buy making computers main stream.
Does windows suck? Yeah, parts of it do.
Are there some outstadning open source alternatives? Definately.
Why?
Because pc's are common enough that just about anyone can go download a distro or development kit and write their own shit if they don't like what they see out there.
Schmidt was CEO of Novel and Sun and now Google? WTF was Google thinking hiring hiring him? I think my pet dog could have run both those companies into the ground just as well.
Much like a degree, getting an IT cert says you can start something and finish it. Some non-IT types might also interpret it as an actual afidavit of knowledge, but to other technical people, it says you could put your time into it and come out with something.
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
Hm, secure room isn't a bad idea, but then, whats the point of using an IPOD (or other external storage for that matter) if you can't take it outside the room.
Shame really, our legal system is going to make adoption of new tools (in medicine in particular) difficult.
Still a neat concept. She should win an award or something just for outside the box thinking.
One thing the article probably failed to mention is all. You could have the same article and swap "broadband" with "health care".
I'd be interested to see how Microsoft's involvement with the new Palm pda's is affected by this. I can see Blackberry and Microsoft and Palm all forming a coalition to sue NTP into oblivion, since presumably the palm treo and even the smart phones made by motorola and others violate some aspects of NTPs patents, which sound overly broad.
It's obvious the US patent system is broken. Maybe someone should form a mail-in campaign to our congressmen and senators to make this an issue. That's the way we're supposed to invoke change in this country right? Bitch at our politicians until they get tired of listen to us.
Well, I get why you wouldn't currently see a lot of value, but take these 'worms' and get a year of open source guys playing with them and I think we'll see this morph a bit and add a lot of flexibility.
I don't mind an international body doing this, but I really mind the UN doing it. Couldn't we found an international geek body to do this instead? Like IEEE or ICANN or CERT or something?
Can you do all this with central monitoring servers? Yes.
Maybe look at it this way, I get to work by driving, car pooling, or telecommuting. Which is better in every situation?
Do you not see any advantage in having a different set of open source tools for network monitoring?
I guess it depends on your environment.
The only way a worm would do that would be if it had infected the problem machine (in which case, why not just run a firewall on it) or if it had infected your switchs/routers. Why not just write the app to run on those in the first place? Why make it a worm?
Because if it's a worm I don't need to dedicate hardware to network monitoring, the network pcs that run at 5-10% cpu and have a couple hundred meg free of physical memory can do it
What "expensive" tools?
How about HP Openview or Network Node Manager. I'm not talking about monitoring a single lan segment here, I'm talking about an enterprise environment with tens of thousands of nodes.
All you'd need is SNMP and the knowledge to setup your firewall correctly and a machine to receive the syslog messages from your firewall and parse them.
yes, thats one way to do it, but dealing with SNMP mibs is a pain in the ass when you're dealing with multiple vendors, every try running MRTG against Dell PowerConnect switches? You can't, they don't adhere to RFC with SNMP, you have to buy their tool to do switch management/monitoring.
Further, what if your environment is a product of acquisitions in many sites, that means different products for different firewalls, unless you can just purchase pix525es at will I guess.
It's far more efficient to have the choke points do the monitoring than to have worms running around on your network.
It is currently, but I think the idea of gathering agents that a roaming ability on the network would be great for looking for new nodes on the network, local users trying to run exploits, build their own little networks, etc. I'm not saying that this article promises the latest greatest or anything, but I can see how mobile agents, maybe tied into a backend SQL database to do logging and handle a limited AI reasoning table, would be very handy.
Another thing it would be good for is when you do an acquisition of another mid-sized or enterprise company and their IT staff didn't document things well and is hostile from the take over. These would be great asset and config discovery agents. Worms are only useful for spreading crap to machines you don't control. Once you have control there are so many more efficient ways to push code to them or monitor them.
Be nice to have worms that watch for machines all the sudden opening ports that they never have before, all the sudden opening up multicast or what not, or even finding that bad machine sending out bad frames on the network.
I can see a lot of flexibility with this, particularly if they are written in some sort of open source scripting language. I guess what I'm getting at is that they could be sort of like an open source distributed IDS/IDP system.
Granted you can do all these things now with a mix of expensive monitoring tools and a lot of config work with tools like ethereal and mrtg and big brother/big sister, etc. But this might be an easier way to do the same thing.
neato
You implied you pirated it.
Oh, I can see how you might interpret it that way. What I was actually inferring to was that it was likely that anyone readying slashdot has probably pirated software/mp3s, more addressing that audience than anything else.
I had no idea gmail was SSL enabled as an option. YOU ROCK!
In the age of free municipal wifi and internet cafes, internet access is easy to come by. Also, I don't need or want to use a laptop when I'm flying in business class, I'm 6'3" and 250 pounds, I barely fit into my seat as it, I certainly don't have room to look at a laptop.
I'd probably pay once a year or something for online file storage and use of the office suite, a monthly charge is kind of tedious.
Would I pay $100 a year? yeah.
Would I pay $200 a year? Probably not, but maybe $120 or $150 for my family/household.
Also, I don't think it's ok to expect $400 for a word processor, email program, and spreadsheet program, no.
Get off your high horse and apply for a job at the SBA.
You bet your software pirating ass I would! Provided it was SSL enabled anyway, one thing that chaps my hide is that all these free email clients don't have any security on them. That sort of keeps me from using goggle mail for anything but fluff email.
But a full blown web office suite that was an online repository for my data. That's smart. I really hope that someone can get this to production, and have an easy was to do an import of old office stuff that actualy works without losing formatting and whatnot.
What the DoD is doing here is making some anthrax vaccine, because we're out. We used a lot of it with our second Iraq deployment, and the fear is very real that someone will use an anthrax weapon in a terrorist attack. The army wants to get some vaccine, and start making their own so they aren't reliant on outside contractors to produce it. It's always been a weak point in our policy I think to rely upon civilan companies to produce vaccines for biological agents (and checmical for that matter).
A crop duster full of anthrax would cause some serious mayhem in the US, or anywhere else for that matter, think about it.
Sad thing is, I can see them pulling it off. But like others have said, who cares, I guess. I have Sirius in my car, so I haven't listed to a local station in almost 2 years now. Radio pretty much sucks at this point.
Sad to see the art of music get so corrupt.
Same as email received is the property of the owner, isn't signal received property of the receiver?
They don't/didn't write your name and credit card number on actual keys, why key cards?
Good god, what a gross display of stupidity this is. I'd love a list of which hotels do this.
Did UO reduce sales of single player games or keep people from playing other online games? Didn't for me, I played UO, AC, EQ, DAoC, CoH, EQ2 and now WoW. I still buy the occasional strategy game that is worth a shit (few and far between in my opinion).
I can't see any truth to the idea that WoW is stifiling the gaming industry. WOTC didn't stifle the gaming market the way everyone said it would with Magic, in fact, the open gaming license helped a lot of small time publishers put out good product that people felt comfortable purchasing
Maybe that's a bad analogy, but I can't think a big player in the game hurts everyone else (I actually think Microsoft has done a lot of good to the PC industry buy making computers main stream.
Does windows suck? Yeah, parts of it do.
Are there some outstadning open source alternatives? Definately.
Why?
Because pc's are common enough that just about anyone can go download a distro or development kit and write their own shit if they don't like what they see out there.
amen.
Eg, bite me novell fanboi
Schmidt was CEO of Novel and Sun and now Google? WTF was Google thinking hiring hiring him? I think my pet dog could have run both those companies into the ground just as well.